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Old 02-12-2018, 10:10 PM
RandyOK RandyOK is offline
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Originally Posted by Doug Young View Post
Dazzo and Trance are certainly in the same general camp as the Frap (SBTs, and small plastic boxes with some type of multi-dimensional sensing element inside). Teddy worked with Arnie Lazarus (inventor of the Frap) for a while and the Trance Amulet visually looks identical to the Frap pickup. Both Teddy and Gary Hull at Trance are quick to say that their designs are nothing like the Frap. So.... who knows?

PUTW on the other hand is quite different, while still being an SBT - basically a small flexible piece of braided-looking material similar to a strip of tape. PUTW seems most similar to the McIntyre, at least as far as basic appearance and, even, to some extent, sound.

At some level, there are only 3 types of pickups, USTs, SBTs, and Mags, but the devil's in the details.
Doug,
Have you heard of these? http://www.barberatransducers.com/index.html

A saddle replacement pickup with 6 individual transducers built in and no pre amp necessary, they (users) claim.
From what Ive heard they sound pretty natural, not like the typically awful (IMO) Piezo sound. https://youtu.be/Fjj5tMUQkEg
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